'Fast Eddie': Britain's most wanted fugitive

Eddie Maher pulled off one of Britain's most audacious bank heists. But after 20 years on the run, 'Fast Eddie' wasn't fast enough to outrun the law. But whatever happened to the stolen £1m?

"There are many places one might expect to find a notorious international fugitive with £1m of stolen money," says the Daily Mail. Ozark, Missouri a sprawling Bible Belt town in the US Midwest "isn't one of them". So it was unsurprising that local police found it hard to believe the extraordinary tale related to them by 22-year-old Jessica King. She claimed that her father-in-law known to everyone in town as the fat, balding man who installed their cable TV boxes was actually Fast Eddie' Maher, one of Britain's most wanted fugitives. She was right.

Maher had been on the run from British police since 1993, when he staged one of Britain's "most infamous bank heists", says The New York Times. "The crime was as carefully executed as the escape."

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